Only The New Yorker could fetch such a roster of talent on the subject of man's best friend. John Cheever, Susan Orlean, Roddy Doyle, Ian Frazier, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Roald Dahl, E.B. White, A.J. Liebling, Alexandra Fuller, Jerome Groopman, Jeffrey Toobin, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ogden Nash, Donald Barthelme, Jonathan Lethem, Mark Strand, Anne Sexton, and Cathleen Schine all contribute their own impressions of the dog in the world. The resulting cornucopia of articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine's archives includes a foreword by Malcolm Gladwell and an essay by Adam Gopnick on the immortal canines of James Thurber.

"The title says it all. It's from The New Yorker. It's about dogs.... And, of course, it has wonderful cartoons.... A must-have."—Booklist